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Further Workplace Health and Safety bosses will be grilled at the inquest into the Dreamworld disaster today, after a leading inspector admitted he had "no confidence" in the emergency procedures in place on the Thunder River Rapids ride.

Gillard rejects Carr job offer story

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected claims she withdrew an offer to former NSW premier Bob Carr to enter the Senate and become foreign affairs minister after senior ministers raised concerns.

The Australian newspaper reported on Wednesday Ms Gillard offered Mr Carr the minister job last week, after Kevin Rudd resigned to contest the Labor leadership and before Senator Mark Arbib announced he would retire from the upper house.

The newspaper said senior ministers objected to an "outsider" getting the job and the offer was withdrawn.

Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra: "The story that's on the front page of the Australian newspaper today is completely untrue."

She declined to clarify which part of the story she was challenging.

The Australian is standing by its story, political editor Dennis Shanahan told Macquarie radio earlier on Wednesday.

Ms Gillard will this week announce a reshuffle of her ministry to fill the positions left by Senator Arbib and Mr Rudd, who has gone to the backbench.

"Of course my door is open to talk to people as I work my way through the reshuffle, but the decision is mine and I make them," she said.

Elsewhere, it has been reported Mr Carr was canvassed about the Senate spot by NSW Labor Party secretary Sam Dastyari immediately after Senator Arbib's resignation announcement on Monday.

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop claimed Mr Carr had been sitting at the Qantas Club at Sydney Airport awaiting a flight to Canberra when Ms Gillard told him she could no longer offer him the foreign ministry.

Mr Carr has said he is "no longer" interested in a federal government role.